from jazz@jazzinstitut.de

20 March 2018

Saarbrücken + Peter Brötzmann / Munich (Germany)

Ulrich Stock travels to Saarbrücken at the German-French border to learn about an upcoming festival dedicated to free jazz and free improvisation, and on the way he stops in Wuppertal to talk to Peter Brötzmann, probably the most authentic of Germany's free jazz legends who reflects about the album "Machine Gun", recorded by him and seven other European avant-garde musicians 50 years ago at Bremen's Lila Eule club (Die Zeit). --- Oliver Hochkeppel reports about the 40th anniversary celebration of Unterfahrt jazz club in Munich, Germany, and remembers the history of the venue, its programmatic choices and economic problems, its different bookers and its important role in the Munich jazz scene which has been acknowledge by a number of awards. He also reports about the celebration festival which blends young experimental music and older establish acts, German jazz legends (Klaus Doldinger, Wolfgang Dauner) and international guests (Myra Melford, Chano Dominguez) ( Süddeutsche Zeitung). Ssirus W. Pakzad reports about the 40th anniversary of the club Unterfahrt as well (Abendzeitung München ).

21 March 2018

... what else ... 

Walter Tunis talks to the British-American pianist Raleigh Dailey ( LexGO). --- Karl Puschmann talks to the saxophonist Kamasi Washington ( New Zealand Herald). --- David Hammer reports about a judge denying the trumpeter Irvin Mayfield the request to modify Mayfield's $25,000 bond in order to be able to perform in South Africa  ( WWLTV). --- Holger True reports about the 60th anniversary of the NDR Jazz Workshop (now called NDR Jazzkonzerte) last weekend ( Hamburger Abendblatt) and also about its current artistic director, Stefan Gerdes ( Hamburger Abendblatt). --- Peter Lahr talks to the German trumpeter Ingolf Burkhardt ( Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung). --- William Poulos reflects about German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno's writings about jazz ( Varsity). --- The Canadian guitarist Oliver Gannon was appointed to the Order of Canada ( CBC). --- Frank Gerace reports about the keyboardist William Dilks who as a Republican is running for the House of Representatives in the Newark General Assembly ( WDEL). --- Andy Beta listens to Miles Davis' album "Get Up With It" from 1974 ( Pitchfork). --- A tuba owned by Ben Jaffe of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band that went missing in February was returned through an anonymous tip ( WWLTV). --- Matt Lavell reflects on what he learned from playing with the legendary saxophonist Giuseppi Logan ( No Sound Left Behind). --- Maja Yüce talks to the German singer Jeff Cascaro ( HNA). --- Michael J. Agovino acknowledges the impact of Val Wilmer's 1977 book "As Serious As Your Life", just republished ( The Village Voice). --- Michael J. West hears the pianist Dawyne Adellat Blues Alley in Washington, D.C. ( The Washington Post). --- Hans Hielscher talks to the poet Saul Williams ( Der Spiegel). --- Hans Hielscher also remembers Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert from 1938 ( Der Spiegel). --- Ulrich Pfaffenberger talks to the German bassist Martin Zenker about his disdain for iRealbooks because the telephones on which they are stored often start to ring or beep on stage ( Süddeutsche Zeitung). --- Rick Nowlin talks about his career as a jazz journalist and composer (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ). --- George Varga talks to the pianist Chick Corea ( San Diego Union-Tribune).

Obituaries 

We learned of the passing of the drummer Robert Barry at the age of 85 ( Chicago Reader), the German trumpeter Walter Eichenberg at the age of 95 ( Neue Musikzeitung), the composer and musicologist Olly Wilson at the age of 80 ( The Violin Channel), as well as the Turkish critic Cüneyt Sermet at the age of 93 ( Hürriyet).